Mikhail Gromov (Михаил Леонидович Громов) is a Russian-French mathematician, a Professor at IHES, with deep contributions to many areas of mathematics.
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Pseudo holomorphic curves in symplectic manifolds, Inventiones Mathematicae 82, n. 2 (1985) 307–347.
related entries: symplectic topology, Gromov-Witten invariant